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Bucks County, Pennsylvania · Inns & businesses

Historic Bucksville House and White Horse Tavern

The Walled-Up Door at Bucksville House

A riderless white horse, bridled and saddled, raises one foreleg inside the rectangular border of the White Horse Tavern sign.

History & local legend

The Bucksville House in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, was once the White Horse Tavern and later operated as a bed-and-breakfast. Lawrence Strohmeyer recalled staying in its one-story guest wing around the middle of the 1990s. He published his account in 2019.

During the night, he awoke to see a woman floating across the room near the foot of his bed. She wore a long skirt or dress with a dark blanket around her upper body, and he could see through her. She passed into the wall where the newer wing joined the old stone building.

The next morning, Strohmeyer checked the other side of that wall. In a bathroom inside the older house, he found the unfinished outline of a bricked-up archway exactly where the figure had disappeared. The closed doorway had not been visible from his bedroom.

Sources

  1. Lawrence Strohmeyer, signed firsthand account of his stay, August 11, 2019
  2. Bucks County Magazine, innkeepers Barb and Joe Szollosi on the White Horse Tavern and conversion of the guest wing
  3. William J. Buck, Account of the Buck Family, tavern and sign, pp. 120–124, 1893
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The report comes from the property's years as a bed-and-breakfast.

Image credit

William J. Buck, Account of the Buck Family of Bucks County, Philadelphia, 1893; digitized copy via Internet Archive · License